Why can't our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding. His starting point is moral intuition-the nearly instantaneous perceptions we all have about other people and the things they do. These intuitions feel like self-evident truths, making us righteously certain that those who see things differently are wrong. Haidt shows us how these intuitions differ across cultures, including the cultures of the political left and right. He blends his own research findings with those of anthropologists, historians, and other psychologists to draw a map of the moral domain, and he explains why conservatives can navigate that map more skillfully than can liberals. He then examines the origins of morality, overturning the view that evolution made us fundamentally selfish creatures. But rather than arguing that we are innately altruistic, he makes a more subtle claim-that we are fundamentally groupish. It is our groupishness, he explains, that leads to our greatest joys, our religious divisions, and our political affiliations. In a stunning final chapter on ideology and civility, Haidt shows what each side is right about, and why we need the insights of liberals, conservatives, and libertarians to flourish as a nation.
© 2012 Ascent Audio (Ljudbok): 9781469001289
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 17 juli 2012
Why can't our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding. His starting point is moral intuition-the nearly instantaneous perceptions we all have about other people and the things they do. These intuitions feel like self-evident truths, making us righteously certain that those who see things differently are wrong. Haidt shows us how these intuitions differ across cultures, including the cultures of the political left and right. He blends his own research findings with those of anthropologists, historians, and other psychologists to draw a map of the moral domain, and he explains why conservatives can navigate that map more skillfully than can liberals. He then examines the origins of morality, overturning the view that evolution made us fundamentally selfish creatures. But rather than arguing that we are innately altruistic, he makes a more subtle claim-that we are fundamentally groupish. It is our groupishness, he explains, that leads to our greatest joys, our religious divisions, and our political affiliations. In a stunning final chapter on ideology and civility, Haidt shows what each side is right about, and why we need the insights of liberals, conservatives, and libertarians to flourish as a nation.
© 2012 Ascent Audio (Ljudbok): 9781469001289
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 17 juli 2012
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Eva
14 juni 2020
Fantastisk. Ytterst intressant och tankeväckande bok som alla borde läsa. Verkar både för att bredda förnuftet och den ofta underskattande, men nog så viktiga, intuitionen.
Simon
25 aug. 2021
Jag har alltid förstått mig på vänstermänniskor och vad som driver dem med de har aldrig förstått mig. Nu vet jag varför. Brilliant bok och borde vara obligatorisk läsning för alla politiker
Tobbe
9 okt. 2022
Det gamla vanliga gnället av konservativa gubbar som har funnits nedskrivet så lång tillbaka som Platon.
Ville
17 mars 2021
Otroligt bra och viktig bok att läsa i dagens polariserade politiska klimat.
Henrik
16 juni 2022
Tankeväckande och intressant. Klart läsvärd.
Anders
15 maj 2023
Fantastiskt att få inblick i moralens uppkomst och grunder.
Lisa
20 aug. 2021
Fantastic presenter and highly interesting theories
Björn
22 jan. 2021
It gives a working structure and explanation to a world of too many fundamentalist thinkers of every kind.
Joachim
15 apr. 2024
Jösses. Jag är skeptisk till psykologin som vetenskap. Skrattar gärna åt Freud, fastän hans bok om Moses inte är dum. Men det här är nog en av de bästa böcker jag läst. Väldigt mycket väldigt tänkvärt om människan, i vår tid i synnerhet. En mängd hoppingivande tolkningar som vi verkligen behöver. En hel del amerikanska utgångspunkter men inte ett dugg sämre för det.
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